[Released] Vegetation Studio Pro

Follow up on the Bug in VSP:

I could not find a fix and no one seems to know what happened here.

So I delete the entire VSP folder, and reinstalled. I had saved most of the biomes to a different folder so I was able to bring them back in, but it was still a lot of work.

So, back up and working and staying away from that tree pack that started the trouble.

This all happened when I tried to load a tree from Rocky Hills Environment - Pro Pack into VSP. So I'm staying away from that vegetation pack for VSP for now.

 

Not totally sure if it's related, but I had the same problem today. However, the cause was quite visible in the console. It didn't take hours, it just didn't close the popup after the error. Simply because billboard rebuilding ran into an error because some file path exceeded the maximum length on windows.

 

Thanks for the tip. I'll look into tree I was trying, the title is a long folder, so that could be it.

 

I assume there is still no true HDRP grass support? Is there planned implementation of HDRP grass support in VSP?

 

Is there one without VSP yet?

 

I'm always impressed with the screenshots you put out. Would you ever do a tutorial on how you put these together?

 

Thank you Do you have a specific question about which you want more details? I'm not doing anything fancy or special coding. All I do is use existing assets and drag & drop. The most notable thing that is affecting the screenshots is the use of postprocessing. Other than that the main thing are the NatureManufacture assets for vegetation quality, drawing vast amounts of it using Vegetation Studio Pro and filling the sky with beautiful clouds using Enviro.

One good starting point is the post processing profile that NatureManufature uses in Meadow Environment. Just play around with it. Other factors are e. g. the importance of shadows. Take a look at this:

There's quite a notable difference with the trees in the distance. It's a problem I'm currently scratching my head about. For one the shadow instance is needed for good tree quality, for the other it influences the car shadows, it flickers like crazy. And toying around with the shadow cascades isn't satisfactory. So if anyone has a solution for that, please do share

 

solution for shadows ?
assetstore.unity.com › packages › vfx › shadersNext-Gen Soft-Shadows - Unity Asset Store

 

Just general workflows. I usually pick up a thing or two that I didn't know or think of when I look at others' workflows.

For shadows I can also vouch for Next-Gen Soft Shadows, it's my go-to for good shadows.

 

It looks like Nature Manufacture is going to support HDRP 7.1.8.

Any news on the release of the 2020 version with SRP support?

 

Are your terrain textures from the meadow pack too?

 

Hello, we haven't yet decided if we should upgrade to URP. And we haven't yet started implementation with Vegetation Studio Pro.

Is Vegetation Studio Pro going to support URP with Unity 2019?

Would we lose our work if we start building the vegetation with current version and decide to upgrade (to SRP version) later?

If there won't be an auto-upgrade to Vegetation Studio SRP version, then we may instead delay Vegetation Studio Implementation until SRP supported version is ready.

Thanks.

 

Update submitted to Asset Store today

Improvements

• Option to ignore height when deleting vegetation from the persistent storage with a brush. For flying instances after changing the terrain.
• New Texture mask scale rule
• New Textyre mask density rule.

Fixes

• Vegetation Mask include not working properly on MeshTerrain
• TextureMaskSettings not serialized properly
• Terrain texture inlcude/exclude sampling the wrong channels on new terrains in 2019.2+
• LOD3 distance calculated wrong for instanced indirect.
  
  Lennart

 

I wanted to create a tropical racing scene for a change and read that Baldinoboy has a HDRP beta with Tropical Forest Pack. He's awesome by the way, I instantly got in.However the demo scene was too small and so I added VS Pro to a larger terrain. I couldn't be bothered to plant all that vegetation by hand

 

A video is always better

 

Are there quick start videos to get something simple up and running on a mesh terrain (not a Unity terrain)?

I followed the written setup guide here:
https://www.awesometech.no/index.php/setup-guide/
....but that is hard to follow and understand

 

Veg Pro can do HDRP items?

 

I got as far as adding the mesh terrain on my mesh like so:


I also have this:


and this:


but, I have no idea what I'm suppose to do with this part:


My mesh looks like this:


I just want to stick bushes on there, densely packed (ie a lot of bushes) what am I missing???

 

I've never done mesh terrains, but you might check on the Discord channel to see if someone there can help also. Vegetation Studio Discord
And then let us all know how to do it.

 

You always could, but no billboards and no instanced indirect.

 

Never used discord. How is that different to this forum?

 

Lots of nice people there who help you.

 

OK I made a post there (I think, not sure of the structure of discord or how to follow along or get notifications however)

 

You already have an answer

 

Hi,

There are parts of billboard which get dark with Lightmap using.


Are there any solution?
I want all billboards to be bright one in the foreground.

Env:
Editor iMac 2019 Mojave/ Client iPhone 8 iOS13.1
Unity 2019.2.10

Vegetation Studio Pro (previous version)

Thanks

 

You can adjust the color in the billboard section of the asset to suit. Just play with the color until it matches.

 

You have got to disable smooth scrolling on your website. It is horrid UI design and overrides the preferences of users wishing to control their own scrolling settings.

 

Hi.

I have a major problem with VS PRO

I do not know the reason, but there is a very large decrease in FPS having it activated or deactivated.

In the images you can see that the vegetation is very scarce. Everything is in LOD2. The camera distance is at 2200.

I don't know what happens and I don't know (or find) any technique to improve performance.

Is there anything I can look at, check ... etc?

Thank you very much.

Unity 2019.2.21f1
Vegetation Studio Pro 1.2.2.0
PC
i7-4790
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA GTX1060 6Gb

 

I'm not getting answers here or on Discord. Is there another channel to get support?

 

Have you tried to PM the dev?
Just click on his name and click 'start a conversation'

 

Yeah sorted for now with a PM from him on discord....

 

I am wondering what is the help you are seeking?

I looked you up on discord and saw that people were trying to help you and you had some long conversations over the past week.
And Lennart even said he was sending you a PM this Monday.

Is it that you are not getting help, or that you don't understand the help you are getting?

Just asking because the way you worded this, "not getting answers", it sounds like no one will respond to you. Which is not apparently what is happening. I'm just trying to understand and see if I can try to help.

 

Oh. Ok.
Feel free to ask any questions here as well. We will try to help. But if it something that is unusual, then you may not get an answer from us and need Lennart.
I know it is a rather extensive asset, and can do a lot. As an artist and not a programmer, I can make it work for me pretty well. But there is a learning curve. I got VS when it first came out and just got VSPro recently and am still learning the features.

 

Anyone here?

 

There is a serious performance problem (VS 1.22) in the Unity 2019.3 editor with a large number of trees (the previous version worked fine)

 

HDRP Instanced Indirect performance test of Tropical Forest Pack (HDRP Beta). I was curious when I got asked if I wanted to try it, but didn't have much time,so I quickly created a new scene and just flood-filled a terrain with whatever came to mind using VS Pro and set the density sliders accordingly. I'm pleased

 

Hi,

Just looking at setup for and AR app and trying different options - Is there a way to set a global scale factor for VSPro's spawns, so that the world scale isn't forced to real-world, but might be 1:100 or some arbitrary scale? I can see setting each vegetation item up with a new scale range, and the spacing, but it seems like a global override would be alot nicer.

If a terrain item has a scale on it, maybe we could have that follow onto the veg system?

 

Not sure if you solved this but one possibility would be (and I am definitely no unity master or vs master) that you have the trees and other vegetation render distance too high rendered too high. Additionally not using billboards on each tree setting.

Of course that depends how far the terrain goes/size in distance?

Failing that, if you are using speed trees they are very greedy.

What your image shows should hardly make a difference... I cant help further as I am currently updating unity. Sorry.

 

Having fun with the new Malbers Forest Golems

Every time I do something like this I think "I wouldn't want to place all that vegetation by hand" And the other thing I think every time is that those NatureManufacture Assets are the best on the store. They make everything shine. And the Enviro clouds are just awesome, they add even more to the overall impression.

VS Pro + NatureManufacture Assets + Enviro = WIN.

 

How do you get VS Pro, NM Assets and Enviro to play nice with HDRP?

 

VSP & NM: no Billboards, Instanced instead of Instanced Indirect
Enviro: Using HDRP Beta

 

Thanks Roland, much appreciated.

 

Sorry to bother you with this Roland, but do you know how to get the Tropical Forest Pack using HDRP? Thanks

 

Bother away It's still in beta afaik, you need to ask @Baldinoboy for the beta. But from what I've heard he'll upload it soon.

 

Thanks Roland, I will wait as I need to buy CTS again to use it on terrains so can wait.

I havent heard much from Lennart lately so presume that the fixes you mentioned for VSPro are only temporary until he updates it. Have you heard anything? Cheers by the way.

 

Hi guys
How about the performance between vs pro and vs?
looks like the pro base on jobs. how faster than vs?

 

Hi, I encountered a strange problem.

I use Unity 2019.3.0f6 + VegetationStudioPro1.2.2.0.

I put a script in the scene containing the following code:

Code (CSharp):

1.      void Start ()
2.      {
3.          Debug.Log (Random.Range (1, 10));
4.      }

If I enable VegetationStudioPro, "Random.Range (1,10)" will not work properly. I can only get number ‘5’ after running the game every time. If I disable VegetationStudioPro, I can get random numbers every time.

Does anyone know what is going on here? Simply put, the Random.Range () method in the entire scene does not work properly when VegetationStudioPro is enabled.

 

Hi. You need to randomize the seed before getting random numbers. Vegetation Studio sets a fixed seed when spawning to get the same results every time you run the game or between computers in networked games.

Lennart

 

Answered your questions on the discord server.

Lennart

 

I set Random seed, but I still cannot get random numbers. I did not find the option for Random seed elsewhere.